Optical PCIe 7.0 connection hits 128 GT/s

An once that becomes generally available operating systems will eat the bandwidth in an instance and any speed-up to be gained on a desktop will be completely negated.

It seems like we're stuck at a pre-set level of latency, which is just within what people tolerate. I was watching a video of someone running Windows 3.11 and notice that the windows closes instantly, which on Windows 10 and 11 I've never seen there NOT be a small delay between the user clicking close and the window disappearing.

> It seems like we're stuck at a pre-set level of latency,

Bandwidth isn't latency, and PCIe 7.0 running as fast as 128 GT/s is no statement at all about its latency. I remember this great analogy from university: a truck carrying a full load of backup tapes across a country has amazing bandwidth but atrocious latency.

(I still agree with your sentiment, just PCIe is not one of the problems in this regard. The connection between bandwidth becoming available and being eaten up vs. latency is a red herring; it's all about properly engineering software for responsitivity.)

GT/s is a measure of latency (not total system latency, but the bus itself is only adding 128 billionth of a second). In fact it does not say anything about bandwidth if you don't know how many bits in a transfer.